General Test Structure
New for 2025: These are the three scores that contribute to the composite score.
What are "English, Math, and Reading"?
This is the length of time you have to complete the math portion of the ACT.
What is 50 minutes?
This is the reason test takers chew minty gum or eat peppermints.
What is "minty flavors boost alertness"?
True or False: The difficulty level of questions are randomly mixed throughout the Math test.
These two categories are optional (but WHS will test them!)
What are "Science and Writing"?
This is the number of questions on the ACT math test.
What is 45?
The action you should do when "5 minutes left" is announced.
What is "fill in the remaining bubbles"? Ideally, with the same letter.
True or False: Diagrams on the ACT math are drawn to scale.
This is the national average ACT score for 2024.
What is 19.4?
This is the number of choices per question on the ACT Math test.
What is 4?
This is what you should do when one answer looks very different than the others.
What is "eliminate it"?
This is the best strategy to use when you are asked to solve an equation.
This is the order of the five sections on the test.
What is "English, Math, Reading, Science, Writing"?
This is the average amount of time you should take per question.
What is 67 seconds?
Instead of aiming for perfection, students should focus on improving by this many points or more each year on the practice ACT tests.
What is "two points"?
What is "guess and abandon"? (Yup, spend time of problems you can solve.)